Even these folks don't quite make it that far:
Posted on 01/03/2010 10:15:10 AM PST by STARWISE
Some 65 years ago, as World War II raged in Europe and the Pacific, the American people faced an unprecedented constitutional crisis of which they were completely unaware — and which has remained a secret ever since.
It has long been known that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, during the last year of his life, was gravely ill with serious cardiac problems: He'd been diagnosed with acute heart failure in March 1944 and suffered from astronomically high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis.
But what the public did not know was that four years earlier, while still in the second of his four terms as president, FDR had been diagnosed with a deadly skin cancer, melanoma, in a lesion over his left eyebrow.
This disease would metastasize to Roosevelt's abdomen and his brain, causing a tumor that eventually killed him on April 12, 1945.
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I think Obama has something wrong with him. He looks like he has had surgery on his skull/brain. Someone said it looked like he may have a shunt.
Compared to what, not running it, not winning?
Roosevelt was a disaster as a war time leader, look at what the result for the west was in 1945, it was his results that millions of us were still enlisting to hold at bay for almost the following half century, as it also bled our national treasury and made our federal government all powerful. A nation cannot afford many "great" leaders like Franklin Roosevelt.
Roosevelt could not stand Truman.
The Democratic Party leadership new that Roosevelt was not going to live through the 4th term and did not want Wallace to be president.
The party insisted on Truman.
This evil of all time was obviously affected in the brain (as the article says). To be such a Communist sympathizer and then sign away formerly free republics to his good pal Stalin, turning them over to 50 more years of torture and misery. Not to mention all the other socialist damage he did. FDR had ZERO business being president.
Why?
Answer: Because FDR picked Wallace in 1940 to be his VP, at a time when he was aware of his disease and the prognosis.
If FDR was not aware of how far left Wallace was, then he was not as astute politically as one might think. If he was aware, then the contention that he dumped Wallace in favor of a more conservative Truman is weakened.
On the other hand a lot of things changed in the world from Nov. 1940 to Nov. 1944. Perhaps his dumping of Wallace was due to a more realistic view of the world.
Speculation, pure and simple, by somebody trying to sell a book. I have places that look like that on my forehead, and have had for a bunch of years. My dermatologist says they’re nothing to worry about.
But then, what do I know? We knew he was crippled from polio, but didn’t know he was wheelchair bound. And it wouldn’t have made any difference to the electorate, IMHO.
I was 18 in 1944, was in the Navy and would have voted for Roosevelt except for the fact that majority age was 21.
Incidentally, that picture is identical to one my great-uncle bought in 1933, so it dates from his first campaign, I believe.
Did you read the article?
They had a dermatologist look at a series of photographs taken over time.
If the spot changes shape and color over time melanoma is likely.
Few of us cover our eyebrows.
For the 1944 election, with the GOP being so weak, FDR had to have known that whomever was on the Democratic ticket would win the election.
So, the real choices were an ailing FDR or a Socialist Wallace and at least with an ailing FDR, we got Truman.
But of course that does not explain why Truman was not in the inner-circle of the FDR administration, but neither was Wallace.
Even these folks don't quite make it that far:
It was widely known at the time that Roosevelt had had polio as a youth, but the story was that he had heroically overcome it.
What was kept completely secret until he died was the fact that he was wheelchair bound. That fact was never admitted. Photographers were not allowed to take pictures of him when he was wheeled up to a platform to speak. Instead, he would be wheeled into place and THEN the cameras would start rolling. At Yalta, Churchill and Stalin were also seated, to make them look equal.
That’s also why he gave his fireside chats, sitting down. Because he couldn’t really stand up.
It says something about our free press that for two decades not one of them ever said that he was confined to a wheelchair. It was only decades after he died that the facts finally came out.
And, yes, he was a disaster to our country, the one man most responsible for the Big Government that is bankrupting us today.
Historically, VPs were never really in the inner circle. Under Carter, Mondale was either the first or one of the first VPs to be included in cabinet meetings. I don't think the GHWB was ever really in Reagan's inner circle and Zero only includes Biden in fast food runs.
Actually the choice came down to Truman or William Douglas.
FDR was asked who he wanted as VP. He sent a telegraph to the convention leadership that said Douglas or Truman.
Someone intercepted the telegram and switched the naems so it read Truman or Douglas. Truman, of course, received the Democratic nomination.
Maybe if these control freaks would let voters elect whomever they want when they want, voters would have learn a lesson with Henry Wallace and we would not have Obama now!
John Kennedy had some kind of illness that was kept from the public. I was never sure what it was or if it would have been fatal had he not been shot.
If he had ever gotten the Second Bill of Rights off the ground like he wanted the damage would of been catastrophic.
Roosevelt - “How much damage did this one man do over his 4 terms in office.
An FDR apologist are we now?
The allies together -- the boots on the ground, sailors on the ships and the guys in the air led by brilliant allied generals won the war, not this sick socialist former secretary of the navy pussy bastard.
Bet you loved Yalta too, his buddy Uncle Joe and the plans for a Commie enslavement of post-war central/Eastern Europe that he had in the plan. Oh yes, and let's not forget the Lend Lease deal with the Soviets and his selection of Henry the Commie Wallace as a running mate to begin with.
Maybe you're an apologist for " the more conservative" Truman too, given your screen name -- the pecker who lost China and almost as much as lost Korea too when he fired MacArthur.
Little wonder that we routinely see you showing up on other threads running interference for Obama. Get lost.
Like selling the east bloc down the river.
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